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Need advice

Ok After a friend of mine came over and took a look at my new Summit my wife got me for x mas he than told me that the ERBE woud smoke it. I told him that he was right that this is not ment for top end speed but crawling and pulling and that is why I wanted it. He then said that the ERBE would do a better job at that...... Well after a while we came up with the bright idea that we will have a tug o war with our rigs. Now I know what the ERBE can do I have one my self but I want to stack the deck in my favor, so I have installed twin titan 775 using the 14t pinion on them also I changed the spring rate and shock oil so it is stiffer. He did tell me that I have to run the stock tires and I could not have any chains on the tires, and he would be doing the same we will also be running 2x 7500 2s LIPO. Now my question to you guys is else should I do so I could increase my chances of winning, because there is alot of bragging as risk and I want to be the one who could do it.

Oh the footage will be up win or loose I just want to make sure I am doing everything I can to win. Also it is agreed upon that it will not stop untill a victory lap is made or something breaks!!!!!! TQi the summit actually does weigh more, but should I change my gearing or keep it stock, should I use low or high gear. I have not had this truck long and I do not know it like I do my ERBE (how it will act under a good thrashing) I am not worried about breaking things I can fix anything on the truck and I have a bunch of spare parts that will work on the Summit that I have in reserve for the ERBE.

That second motor will help with torque and will add the needed extra weight. My suggestion go slow and steady. The erevo has poor traction tires, within the first few moments he will realize that your truck is too heavy/ solid to budge and he will eventually panic, mash the gas pedal and loose all traction. Then you can pull him like a rag doll.

How do I know? Because its been done before (ALBEIT A NON BRUSHLESS EMAXX)

summit versus emaxx - summit wins in the towing department (SEE THE LATER PART OF THE VIDEO) . It was not based on speed but mostly weight/ traction/ and controllable POWER.

again tires are going back to stock he will not allow the ones I have on there now. If you guys say the setup I have now should be good enough than I will run with it and post what happens this weekend (as long as he does not chicken out).

Oh and noir 522 Dont worry I would not challenge him to a race with this truck..... I would get my ERBE out and smoke him all day long

Tires alone the Summit will win.....since you're both running stockers. The erbe tires not only have a much lesser aggressive tread design but they are a somewhat harder composite and stiffer (narrower) sidewall. All of which add up to give the Summit an advantage.

Then when you add the extra weight of the Summit and the locking diff’s…….no contest. Just lock it down and give it a slow steady pull until he breaks traction. Once he does, hammer down on it and make beg you to stop. LOL

With dual 775's high gear would be fine. My concern would be breaking drive shafts. Thats ALOT of weight with ALOT of torque pulling another HEAVY truck with ALOT of horsepower. I have no doubt the summit will pull that ERBE around the yard like a little kids blankie... but theres going to be alot of strain on your drive train.

Still, you have to remember, the ERBE has 2 open diffs. So, once a single tire breaks free on the front or rear you loose %25 of your traction. Even IF you break a single drive shaft youll still have equal traction to an ERBE (but more thanks to your HUGE, soft, sticky tires)

* upgrade the center and drive shafts!? especially if the ERBE has them....?
* weight the frontend down to help lessen the chances of wheelie and tipping over
* adjust your tierods/links to the lowest COG setting. maybe have the front lowest and the rear in the middle?
* add a servo & tow truck like lift to the back to lift his car off the ground, tip it over and then proceed to drive on top of it, stopping to take a picture at the peak of Mt. Summit!?!?! hahahaha

Now you have me curious......I’ll have to drop over in the erbe world and read some of this myself. Like many of you on here I have a Summit and an erbe and IMO there is no way my erbe could pull my Summit backwards. Especially with stock tires!!!!

" Theres no way that the old technology BRUSHED summit with that 1980's designed 200 kwatt motor can touch your modern day 1300 kwatt brushless erevo"

*snip*

" 1300kwatts vs 220kwatts? He will be singing a new song "HE YANK ME GANGUM-STYLE"

I hope when these guys say kwatts they don't mean kilowatts.

An RC car with a 1300kW motor? That's over 1700 horsepower

Similarly, it makes me laugh, but also disappoints me when guys on the boards think that KV (motor velocity constant - as in 2000KV motor) is the same as kV (kilovolts). The lack of logic is mind boggling.

i'm not one to talk junk before a contest, i really hate to eat my words......but i really don't see how the erevo could win a tug of war with a summit. horsepower is not everything here; more weight + more traction + lower gearing will prove itself superior. sure a corvette has more horsepower and torque than a full size truck, but with the truck in 4x4 low the corvette has no chance.
i really hope a good 'best of 7' video gets posted here and in the erevo forum (just MAKE SURE that slipper is TIGHT!)

Lol I've been over on the revo threds reading them for like a hour now and couldn't find it. Lol. It's kinda funny how much the bash a summit in one thread and in the next they say use summit parts.
It's also funny on how the respect anr attitudes differ. I noticed here is extremely mellow nice and helping and over there is blunt and rude and argumentative.